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2. Beyond Erasure and Profiling: Cultivating Strong and Vibrant Arab American Communities in Chicagoland
- Author:
- Nadine Naber, Nicole Nguyen, Chris D. Poulos, Ivan Arenas, and Louise Cainkar
- Publication Date:
- 01-2023
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), University of Illinois at Chicago
- Abstract:
- This report captures the conditions and experiences of Arab Americans in the Chicagoland area. The report uses demographic research, surveys, focus group data, as well as expert commentaries by organizers and academics to analyze how systemic inequities and anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism affect the lives of Arab Americans in employment, education, health care, housing, and policing. The report engages with the diversity of experiences among Arab American communities and their common challenge in navigating being at once hypervisible as a result of commonplace stereotypes as well as invisible due to being classified as white by government agencies and due to the general lack of knowledge about Arab Americans in our society. This report was produced in partnership with several Chicagoland Arab American community organizations: UIC’s Arab American Cultural Center, Arab American Action Network, Arab American Family Services, Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance, Sanad Social Services, and the Syrian Community Network. By mapping the challenges facing Arab American communities and making proposals for change, the report will be used as a resource for advocates working to build strong and vibrant Arab American communities.
- Topic:
- Minorities, Community, Racism, Arabs, and Racial Profiling
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
3. Examining the Impact of Community Sponsorship on Early Refugee Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
- Author:
- Emily Crane Linn
- Publication Date:
- 07-2022
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Journal on Migration and Human Security
- Institution:
- Center for Migration Studies of New York
- Abstract:
- As the number of refugees in need of resettlement continues to climb worldwide, advocates and policy makers are searching for ways to leverage new support from private individuals, faith groups, and community organizations to complement and extend the capacity of traditional government resettlement programs. The United States is one of many countries considering the possibility of a “private sponsorship” model, which would allow private individuals and community groups to resettle refugees independent of traditional government resettlement agencies. While this particular resettlement model has not been implemented in the United States in more than four decades, the country has a long history of community involvement in refugee resettlement. Many resettlement agencies operate vibrant community sponsorship (or co-sponsorship) programs, in which community groups partner with resettlement agencies in delivering services and material support to refugees. However, due to a lack of publicly available data, the impact of this co-sponsorship model has been woefully understudied.
- Topic:
- Refugees, Labor Policies, Local, and Community
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
4. Deadly Disparities in the time of COVID-19: How Public Policy Fails Black and Latinx Chicagoans
- Author:
- Cal Lee Garrett, Cynthia Brito, Ivan Arenas, Claire Laurier Decoteau, and Fructoso M. Basaldua Jr.
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), University of Illinois at Chicago
- Abstract:
- In this report we center the lived experiences Black, Latinx, and white residents of three neighborhoods — Austin, Little Village, and Albany Park — in order to explore how the pandemic has impacted different communities in the city. Drawing on over 150 interviews with residents and policy makers, we find that while COVID-19 has been treated as a health crisis at the federal, state, and local levels and thus has been fought through a series of public health strategies, the residents we spoke to experienced it as a much broader crisis related to housing, jobs, childcare, schooling, and healthcare. The policy response to COVID-19 gave explicit attention to racial equity but, for a number of reasons we lay out, often fell short in meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. Longstanding structural inequities meant that low-income and working-class Chicagoans were more vulnerable both to the disease and to the impact of disease mitigation strategies (e.g., economic fallout of the shutdown).
- Topic:
- Minorities, Discrimination, Urban, Community, Health Crisis, and Equality
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
5. Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: The Future of Black Chicago?
- Author:
- Teresa Cordova, Eve L. Ewing, Lisa Yun Lee, Alden Loury, Mary Pattillo, Barbara Ransby, David Stovall, and Stacey Sutton
- Publication Date:
- 01-2021
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP), University of Illinois at Chicago
- Abstract:
- Starting in 1980, Chicago’s African American population growth not only halted, but reversed. By 2016, the population of black Chicagoans had decreased by 350,000 from its peak in 1980. These population trends have attracted significant media attention and speculation about why black Chicagoans are leaving the city. Given these trends, IRRPP set out to analyze what the data on population in Chicago can tell us about black migration into and out of the city. In this report, we assess the historical context of shifts taking place over the past 100 years, provide a more detailed analysis of population change across Chicago neighborhoods from 1990 to 2016, and examine where Chicagoans who are leaving the city are going.
- Topic:
- Migration, Minorities, Urban, and Community
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
6. The Opportunity Youth Forum: Forging a National Network to Advance Equitable Systems Change
- Author:
- Forum for Community Solutions
- Publication Date:
- 02-2021
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Independent evaluators Equal Measure conducted an evaluation to explore the status of the Opportunity Youth Forum, and the communities in which they operate, to better understand areas of strength and opportunities for additional focus and learning. This report details Network-wide evaluation findings drawn from data collection among 23 of 27 communities participating in the Forum for Community Solutions’ OYF Network in 2019.
- Topic:
- Youth, Values, Community, and Equality
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
7. Rural Development Hubs: Strengthening America’s Rural Innovation Infrastructure
- Author:
- Community Strategies Group
- Publication Date:
- 06-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- This report focuses on the role — and aggregates the wisdom — of a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. We have chosen to call them Rural Development Hubs — or Hubs for short. We focus here on Rural Development Hubs because they are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development in this country.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Development, Rural, Economic Development, Community, and Farming
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
8. Equity and Affordability in Rural Communities and Tribal Nations
- Author:
- Energy and Environment Program
- Publication Date:
- 07-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- The annual Aspen-Nicholas Water Forum, a collaborative initiative between the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, serves as a platform for addressing domestic water challenges in the 21st century. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Forum took place across a series of virtual sessions exploring what constitutes good water governance through the lenses of water affordability and equity. While this topic was chosen prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the pandemic has further revealed and exacerbated health and financial disparities across racial, gender, and geographic lines.
- Topic:
- Inequality, Rural, Public Health, Pandemic, Community, COVID-19, Tribes, and Equity
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
9. Meaningfully Connecting with Communities in Advocacy and Policy Work
- Author:
- Susanna Dilliplane and David Devlin-Foltz
- Publication Date:
- 04-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Commissioned by Fund for Shared Insight, this landscape scan explores whether and how US funders and nonprofits seek to meaningfully connect with the people and communities that their advocacy and policy work is intended to benefit. It employs an intentionally exploratory lens, without a predetermined definition of what “connecting” would look like in advocacy and policy contexts, nor presumptions about what might be needed to support connections. The research findings are intended to inform Shared Insight’s grantmaking strategy, and to contribute to the broader field’s understanding of what it means — and what it takes — to meaningfully connect with communities that are ultimately intended to benefit from advocacy and policy work. Shared Insight is a funder collaborative seeking to improve philanthropy by elevating the voices of those least heard.
- Topic:
- Advocacy, Community, Philanthropy, and Non-profits
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
10. The Grand Opportunity: Creating Community, Equity and Innovation with Houston Public Libraries
- Author:
- Amy Garmer
- Publication Date:
- 05-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Thirty library, government, nonprofit, and business leaders convened at the historic Julia Ideson Library Building in Houston in November 2017 to explore opportunities for working more closely and more intentionally with Houston’s public libraries. The Houston Dialogue on Public Libraries highlighted the changing role of libraries in response to educational, economic, social, and technological changes in society and explored strategies for leveraging the resources and expertise of the Houston Public Library system to address critical needs for recovery and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
- Topic:
- Education, Innovation, Community, and Libraries
- Political Geography:
- North America, Texas, United States of America, and Houston